Arc Pro A40 vs Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking441not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTerascale 2 (2009−2015)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameBlackcomb XTXDG2-128
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date12 July 2011 (13 years ago)8 August 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores22401024
Core clock speed715 MHz1500 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1700 MHz
Number of transistors2x1700 Million7,200 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data50 Watt
Texture fill rateno data108.8
Floating-point processing powerno data3.482 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data64
Ray Tracing Coresno data8

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x8
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2x2 GB6 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data192.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX1112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 July 2011 8 August 2022
Chip lithography 40 nm 6 nm

Arc Pro A40 has an age advantage of 11 years, and a 566.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire and Arc Pro A40. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire is a notebook card while Arc Pro A40 is a workstation one.


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